Lavrov Exposed The Europeans’ Plot To Subvert Trump’s Ukrainian Peace Plan
Astute observers can read between the lines and discern Russia’s displeasure with him too.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s first press conference of the year in late January touched upon a lot of topics, importantly including the Europeans’ plot to subvert Trump’s Ukrainian peace plan. According to him, the UK “is speaking increasingly more often on behalf of the EU” and therefore plays a leading role in these efforts, “which boil down to one thing – an immediate ceasefire complemented with legal security guarantees for Ukraine. The question is what these security guarantees concern.”
As Lavrov sees it, the purpose is “the preservation of the current Nazi regime”, which “will never legally recognise Crimea, Novorossiya and Donbass as Russia…And a ceasefire along the current line of contact, following which ‘the West will help,’ is unacceptable to us because they will build bases there.” In that scenario, “[France and the UK] will deploy a multinational force in Ukraine, build a network of military hubs (bases) there… and pump more weapons into Ukraine to create threats for the Russian Federation.”
In pursuit of these goals, they’re trying “to convince Trump (of their merits) and (then) let him force Putin to accept it, and that they will all go for it” once that happens. “Trump’s idea, which we discussed and supported in Anchorage, has been categorically rejected by that elite European group.” Lavrov didn’t mention it, but Trump hasn’t pushed back against the Europeans’ subversion of his Ukrainian peace plan, which was much more to Russia’s liking and at least presumably declared an intent to resolve root issues.
This observation strongly suggests that he’s once again falling under others’ influence, in this case warmongering Europeans and their neoconservative allies in the US, perhaps after being misled into regarding Russia’s restraint as a weakness that he can exploit to further his country’s zero-sum interests. These interests are to coerce the maximum number of concessions from Russia, ideally significant ones that weaken its overall strategic position, which Putin still rejects since he sees no reason to comply.
It’s in connection with this goal that Lavrov’s warning about the US’ attempt to establish strategic superiority over Russia is relevant. He also talked about this during the same press conference. The pertinence is that neutralizing Russia’s nuclear second-strike capabilities through the four interconnected means that he touched upon and which were analyzed here might make such concessions more likely. Russia is capable of retaining these capabilities, however, so that goal won’t be achieved in this way.
Therefore, the US’ only recourse for furthering these zero-sum interests (if Trump remains under the influence of warmongering Europeans and their neoconservative allies in the US) is to perpetuate the conflict in parallel with intensifying secondary sanctions pressure, both of which are presently occurring. Trump could have punished the Europeans for subverting his Ukrainian peace plan agreed upon in Anchorage or at least told them to stop subverting it, but he’s thus far done neither to Russia’s chagrin.
It can’t be ruled out that he might one day do so, yet for the time being, Russia is rightly skeptical of his intentions but also doesn’t want to risk offending him and consequently making the worst-case scenario of him doubling down on the conflict a self-fulfilling prophecy by openly expressing such sentiment. That explains why Lavrov only criticized the Europeans during his press conference and not Trump. Astute observers, however, can read between the lines and discern Russia’s displeasure with him too.
It is fairly surrealistic that NATO is attempting to force on Russia conditions like General Zelensky was already standing at the gates of Moscow, on the edge of final victory. This basically proves that they are unwilling to submit to reality; just as they were when they cooked up and victimized themselves with an absurd military strategy in 2022. The average Western reader is absolutely misinformed, thanks to the uniform, single sided media coverage.
As far as Trump’s role, at best he is playing with the war for monetary restitutions for the US. It is difficult to believe that he truly wants a lasting peace settlement as this is in direct opposition to his prior acts during his first term and US interests in general. As far as the things he bubbles up are completely meaningless, only actions count.
‘Lavrov’s warning about the US’ attempt to establish strategic superiority over Russia is relevant’ And vey mch so! America was swept out of the larger part of Asia at the front of our very eyes during the last year. Trump is not going to turn around this giant geopolitical loss by herding Russia into some sort of Trojan Horse Deal. He is dealing with world class diplomats and politicians, supported by a major military superpower, not a Bedouin Tribe in North Africa.
Where is this whole diplomatic clowning going?
One day, after a ten hour totally meaningless diplomatic meeting a senior Russian diplomat will approach Trump with a broad smile at the front of a hundred media people and offer him a colorful box of hair colorings with ‘better choices’. Telling him to send some to London for Boris Johnson as well.
ANDREW , your newsletter is the BEST. Forget the MSM which is typically slanted to satify certain elements in our country.